Hi, I am looking through kernel 3.2's task_struct, which has two pointers for parents: real_parent and parent (http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/include/linux/sched.h#L1313) I would like to know why there are two pointers, and how these two differ. init_task's parent and real_parent are initialised to point to itself. Since the main way processes are created is through fork()/clone(), I tried following do_fork function to see where a newly created process's parent is set, but I am unable to find it. I see that do_fork dups the current task_struct, and only updates the new process's real_parent, depending on flags (passed via clone/fork syscall). The documentation in sched.h:1313 says that "parent" refers to the parent task that would receive SIGCHLD (i.e., the one that issues wait4()). I followed the wait4() syscall to do_wait(), I still am not able to find where the task's parent is updated. Is there something I'm missing? Thanks, -- Vimal _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
